Frontier phone, Internet service disruptions in West Lafayette could last days

10:08 PM,
Oct. 5, 2012

Crews work to fix a damaged phone line Friday on Cumberland Avenue in West Lafayette. The Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office and hundreds of other Frontier Communication customers lost phone and Internet services after a crew working on the project accidentally cut three underground lines.

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The Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department and hundreds of other Frontier Communications customers lost phone and Internet services Friday morning after a crew working on a West Lafayette street project accidentally cut three underground lines.

Also disrupted were wireless services for AT&T and Verizon customers. The affected area in West Lafayette was between County Road 350 and U.S. 52 from Indiana 43 to Yeager Road. The impacted landlines are those beginning with 464, 463 and 497, according to a Frontier Communications media alert.